Description
THE sobbing cry of a new-born child rose suddenly on the still night. Far away over the grey, undulating sandhills of -the desert a lighter streak on the horizon showed that the dawn was nigh ; but here, beside the rude screen formed of a woman's veil that was drawn between a woman's travail and man's sleep all was dark, save for the faint glimmer of an oil cresset that filtered weakly through the stretched muslin.